Summer Semester 2024 Catalog

DMSO 1020 SECTIONAL ANATOMY AND NORMAL SONOGRAPHIC APPEARANCE

Credits

3

This course combines the didactic education of sectional anatomy with active student participation in classroom laboratory experience. Information is weighted toward normal structures which are sonographically visible. Structures are described according to relative location and proportionality. Topics include: normal sectional anatomy of the neck, liver, biliary system, pancreas, genitourinary tract, spleen, peritoneal cavity, retroperitoneum, gastrointestinal tract, and vascular system structures within the upper and lower extremity; anatomic planes related to sonographic images; sonographic appearance and sonographic patterns of structures in the female and male pelvis, neck, liver, biliary system, pancreas, peritoneum and retroperitoneum, gastrointestinal tract, non cardiac chest, and upper and low extremities; and related imaging, laboratory testing procedures and functional testing procedures.

Lecture Hours

15

Lab Hours

60

Prerequisite

Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program: Program Admission Vascular Program: CAV 1030, VAST 1100, DMSO 1040

Corequisite

Vascular Program VAST 1040, VAST 2060, DMSO 1080; Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program DMSO 1010, DMSO 1040, DMSO 1060